Oxygen Alert Alarms

Re: Oxygen Alert Alarms

Heather Thorne — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:20:53 GMT

If your nurses are regularly 'forgetting' to turn the oxygen off then they perhaps need a performance review to discuss as it's costing the practice money. Hopefully with your tick sheet this will happen

Re: Oxygen Alert Alarms

Emma Townson VN Cert IV MBVNA — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:04:13 GMT

We are using large cylinders of medical O2 at the moment. - (F)

I've put in place a 'check list' system for the nurses to fill in each night, They must sign and date and tick that they have performed all tasks to properly close down. But i do really like the token idea so may adopt that as well ;)

I know its one of those things that sometimes happens but its just wasting money and in an emergency - lack of oxygen is the last thing I need!!

Cheers!

Re: Oxygen Alert Alarms

Sal the 1st — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:23:08 GMT

are you running your anaesthetic machines off size E cylinders or are you using piped gas. I had this problem with size E at a previous practice and got around it by having a 'token' - which was actually an old dog tag - nurse switching on in the morning collected the token from the hook on the ops board and hung it on the 02 key on the machine. Last nurse in there turned off the 02 and returned the token to the hook on the ops board so anybody on the last shift could see at a glance by looking at the boards if the 02 was on or off without actually having to go into each room to check (ie token missing = on, token present = off) would you be able to adapt this to your own needs?